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Comment Re:A Sensor to unlock with Fingerprint? (Score 2) 773

But for security purposes using it to unlock your phone or identify you to the device as the current user is pretty sweet

Sure, unless you're wearing gloves, or when you have wrinkled fingers from swiming or bathing, or you have grease on your fingers from eating, or you have a job where you have to wash your hands a lot (doctor, nurse, new parent, etc).

Comment Re:Not sure about this (Score 1) 347

There are people who get just as much satisfaction out of improving existing code as "feature" programmers get out of creating new features, both in the open source community and working for business.

If you identify the missing 10% and make it visible to those people, unless your process makes contributing painful or your code base is painful to work through, chances are someone will be willing to work on it, especially if they are directly impacted by it.

As an open source project, the best thing you can do to encourage people to help with the code is to make your codebase clean and readable and let people know what the issues are.

Comment Re:only going to get worse... (Score 4, Informative) 375

IP over power lines is a horrible idea! The noise it creates across multiple bands is, quite frankly, illegal. Vendors made promises about keeping the noise within certain limits and they failed across the board. That's why IP over power lines is almost completely gone now.

The sad thing is that it took the HAMs pointing out the violations to get the authorities to act.

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